Soft Matter Symposium 2019: Celebrating five years of the SMS

October 8-10, 2019
University of Florida Emerson Alumni Hall
Gainesville, Florida

SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION & REGISTRATION HERE

This year we're celebrating the 5th anniversary of our event by surveying the diversity of topics covered since we started in 2015. We’ll be bringing together experts in rheology, soft tribology and contact mechanics, cell and tissue mechanics, soft matter manufacturing, and many other topics under the umbrellas of soft matter, active matter, biophysics, and biomaterials.

This symposium will be in Gainesville on the campus of the University of Florida, beginning with an evening reception on Tuesday, October 8th and concluding on Thursday evening October 10th. We will balance the schedule to provide time for both presentations and in-depth discussions.

Invited Speaker List

External:

Elias C. Aifantis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Romesh C. Batra, Virginia Tech

Jiajie Diao, University of Cincinnati

Randy H. Ewoldt, University of Illinois

Seth Fraden, Brandeis University

Ming Guo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel A. Hammer, University of Pennsylvania

Ryan C. Hayward, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Princess Imoukhuede, Washington University in St. Louis

Lihua Jin, University of California, Los Angeles

Yannis G. Kevrekidis, John Hopkins University

Sanjay Kumar, University of California Berkeley

Jae-Won Shin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sanjiv Shrivastava, LMSERA Inc.

Daniel M. Sussman, Emory University

Internal:

Katerina Aifantis, UF, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Thomas Angelini, UF, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Gregory A. Hudalla, UF, Biomedical Engineering

Coray Colina, UF, Chemistry

Whitney Stoppel, UF, Chemical Engineering

Xin Tang, UF, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Organizing Committee:

Tommy E. Angelini, Associate Professor, University of Florida

Katerina Aifantis, Associate Professor, University of Florida

Xin Tang, Assistant Professor, University of Florida